STUDY OF CAVITATION IN SUPERFLUID HE-4 AT LOW-TEMPERATURES

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XIONG, Q
MARIS, HJ
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[1] Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
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10.1007/BF00681524
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O59 [应用物理学];
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We report studies of the negative pressure required to lead to the nucleation of bubbles in superfluid helium-4 in the temperature range down to 0.8 K. At the lowest temperatures studied, the tensile strength is found to be approximately 3 bar. The results are compared with nucleation theory and the possible importance of nucleation on vortices is discussed.
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